Fossil hunting hike along the beach produces some really good finds

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2 жыл бұрын

I headed out for a really long hike after a couple of weeks of not finding much. I thought I probably just needed to put some more hours in and today was the perfect day for it! Right off the bat I found a great fossil which made me think there was a good chance to find the elusive penguin.
The area I was in had a few rock that seemed out of place, I'm wondering whether they are glacial erratics, rocks moved there by glaciers which then melted and left the rocks behind.
The tide started moving in towards to end as well as a heavy fog that rolled in off the ocean which made everything seem rather quiet and eerie.
My pack was nice and heavy by the time I got back to the car which always feels like a good day's fossil hunting.
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@mikes5637 2 жыл бұрын

That seal at the start is a potential future fossil for future Mamlambo to find.

@rockcrazygal5166 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been binge watching your videos. Wow, I’m learning so much from you, I also fossil hunt, mainly Canada. my favourite haunt is Lake Ontario. I find amazing 4 1/2 million--year-olds piratetized sea life in shale rock. never have I found a crab one, I’ll fall over lol. Thx for all of this wonderful content!❤️🙏🇨🇦

@suchnothing Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how heavy your pockets and bags are when you start heading home 😆 This looks so fun. I lived in London, UK for about a year in my youth, and used to walk 20 min to the Thames to look for broken bits of pottery and shells. Humans have been dumping their rubbish in the Thames for several thousand years, so interesting things always wash up on the sections that are sandy/muddy and not bricked over.

@LuckyCoinFrog 2 жыл бұрын

Awww the tiny little crab at 15:35 spells l o v e! Love crab

@MADmosche 2 жыл бұрын

Watching these awesome videos makes me jealous that our beaches aren’t full of tons of cool fossils!

@Lilith-Rose 2 жыл бұрын

There's always beachcombing for things like sea glass, cool looking pebbles, bones and driftwood plus human debris that looks cool. My favourite from that last one has to be half a longboard that had been tumbled in the rocks and is now hanging on my wall like some hipster skater art when in reality it's just a piece of rubbish I found on a beach

@ForwardNewsToday 2 жыл бұрын

You’re wrong and clearly everyone who liked this comment is not a go getter, fossils are everywhere waiting to be discovered

@impunitythebagpuss 2 жыл бұрын

Great day on the beach! The colour of the water is gorgeous! How fortunate you are to be able to ramble along such a shoreline and make fantastic finds as well! Please continue to take us along!

@billrobbins5874 2 жыл бұрын

Lot of good finds. Sure hope you get that penguin some day. Such a beautiful area. Best of luck to you! 🐧🦀🦞🐳🦕🦖🦣🐟

@mariannamanda5167 2 жыл бұрын

I'm jealous of all this. I find it extremely interesting. Thank you for your time and for sharing it with us.. 🙏

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@aureaphilos 6 ай бұрын

What a productive day! Would love to see the Nautiloid prepped, with the domed half extracted, and then you'd have the flat 'cross-section' as its base. Would be cool!

@natureswrapture3922 2 жыл бұрын

I will never look at rocks the same way again! Awesome content, I really enjoy seeing what you find and especially what you prep!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!! Glad you enjoyed it!

@sarahhood8324 2 жыл бұрын

The cut through of the agate is beautiful, it looks like a painting of the foggy grey NZ shoreline!

@sandmaker 2 жыл бұрын

Another fun trip, but this time in the sun and no wind. It's easy to lose track of time on days like that. I'm glad you beat the tide. Logs of good fossils but the agate was crazy!. Thanks for sharing your time and talent. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@respectanimals2 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed the vid, can’t wait to see what is inside the rocks when you have prepared them , peace ✌️ 😎🌴

@billrobbins5874 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome heron. Where's all the people in the town? Just know you will find that elusive penguin someday! 🐧🦀🦞

@nitawynn9538 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the hunt. I like that whited-faced heron, too.

@MamlamboFossils 8 ай бұрын

My pleasure!!

@joshuajackson6442 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, enjoyed the adventure

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joshua!

@RP-wp7in 2 жыл бұрын

Great as always, the agate looked more like candy or something organic. The huge yellow spot on the back really pulls my eyes towards it. Good luck out there

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah it really did stand out!

@kirktingblad6667 2 жыл бұрын

Nice finds and wow, you sure live around a beautiful part of the planet!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, it really is beautiful here!

@NickVenture1 Жыл бұрын

Inspiring. Also the sound of the waves is relaxing.

@MamlamboFossils Жыл бұрын

Thanks!! They are really soothing 😀

@user-ne9im2xo8u Жыл бұрын

Great finds. Thanks for sharing. So interesting.

@shelbysgarage5828 Жыл бұрын

I believe that any quartz (silicate) tinted yellow is citrine.the petrified wood is of a "burl" I'd guess maple tree also.

@laurat5143 Жыл бұрын

Love the agate it surprised me. I thought it would have had more yellow on the inside. Everything was a great find.

@MamlamboFossils Жыл бұрын

Thanks Laura!! Yeah, it was quite a pretty agate

@a3skywarrior929 2 жыл бұрын

Great seeing you out... fall here and been working to much to make the drive at the Trilobite place all year. I also love rocks and minerals. Awesome find on the agot!👍

@subliminalvibes 2 жыл бұрын

That yellow Agate is stunning! 👍😎

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

And so unexpected !

@peopleddiagram2920 2 жыл бұрын

The yellow, (lemon) agate is absolutely beautiful. Superb finds on that outing and it was fascinating how you could find a fish spine in that huge cliff!

@marthafenimore4279 2 жыл бұрын

Love seeing the insides of rocks. That agate was so pretty.

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

It was very cool!!

@risflo_ 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to be able to walk along those beaches, love the video's keep them coming!

@zioncardman18 2 жыл бұрын

That agate is beautiful!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

It really is!

@damo7157 2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!!

@jamesbarisitz4794 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool and productive hunt! Looking forward to some of the discoveries. ✌ 😃

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍It's been a while since I've found anything really amazing :)

@1wencowen 2 жыл бұрын

Loving your videos!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! 😃

@m.g5818 2 жыл бұрын

So cool. Yet to find a fossils.⛏️👍Hi from Australia 🇦🇺🙋⛏️👍😊

@aserta 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, exciting finds in this one, lots of little mysteries.

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I need to investigate some of them 😀

@campbellmcgrannachan3859 2 жыл бұрын

Letssss goooooo. Another video hell yess

@Dexterity_Jones 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video to veg out with after work; thanks mate

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it bro!

@vernlapoint1528 2 жыл бұрын

Cool finds

@paintediva 2 жыл бұрын

That was fun!

@savagesquirrel9828 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad you can’t get a car closer. At least you weren’t trying to carry an elephant sized rock up the cliff. I think fog and mist are the very essence of spooky…..luv ‘em.

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Fog is always spooky, especially when it appears so quickly!

@cynthiarowley719 2 жыл бұрын

Lots to work on. Good summer wishes🖖👋👋

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@WightFossilTours 2 жыл бұрын

Wow great finds, I wish the crabs I find were as monstrous as yours 💪🤩

@margiebrown7436 2 жыл бұрын

I thought fish spine when I first saw it. Glad you agreed. LoL 😂

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha awesome!

@teresahepplewhite9828 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. The agate slice looks like the coastline with trees and the mist rolling in.

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@derekpospisil747 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos inspired me to get back into rock and fossil hunting. I've been finding some really cool corals in the USA Midwest, but I'm just amazed at the apparent ease with which you find vertebrae. Even if I found something like that, I wouldn't be able to keep it :(

@riverranger8226 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a law on specimen collection in your State?

@ronslaughterandalice1018 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fascinating. I wish the technology was at a point where these stones could be scanned with a hand held scanner and then all the sediment could be removed with a laser type device that leave the fossil untouched. I do believe it will/should be taken to the next at least two levels. If they can do 3D printing they should be able to do particle separation. Perhaps a smart laser instead of a chisel.

@centauri9458 2 жыл бұрын

Well done. Look forward to seeing the fish fossil if you decide to prepare it. Always wanted to find a fish fossil in a piece of shale. That is the only time it's good to find a fish bone, never good to find one in a sandwich. Glad to see another video. 😁👍

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree on the sandwich 😀

@seanparchim9165 2 жыл бұрын

Rookie Rock Hound can tell you all about the agate he's the Master,fun hunt today Sir ✌️ Napa California

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

I'll message him 😀

@josephcormier5974 2 жыл бұрын

Great video two thumbs fish spine

@Kirsten._._ 2 жыл бұрын

You found quite a lot! Beautiful cut specimens.

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, it was a good day for fossil hunting!

@lois4329 2 жыл бұрын

Fantabulous 😎

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@MotoLego 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome sauce!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks moto 😃

@gojirazillasaurus6341 2 жыл бұрын

Nice bro!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!

@willbejamming1532 2 жыл бұрын

Nice variety. Everything but the kitchen penguin, I mean, sink.

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

It has to be out there!! Surely 😆

@SomeGuy-qd3li 2 жыл бұрын

nice hunting

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@chubbrock659 2 жыл бұрын

At the end I thought you were headed for the brewery! That’s where I’d be lol

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

😆 I really did need a drink after that hike!

@dtruman123 2 жыл бұрын

Living in Ohio, nothing is fascinating to look for. So lucky to have access to fossils like those.

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Inlive in a great spot for fossil hunting!

@richardburridge2798 2 жыл бұрын

Fynn says thanks heaps for the shoutout, that made his day! Can't wait to bump into you one day on the beach!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I'm really glad he saw it. I'm sure he's heard about the great crab Manny found on the beach. Send me an email with your postal address and I can send some fossils for the two of them.

@richardburridge2798 2 жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils that would be amazing but I feel we still owe you some beers from the last parcel you sent us, I presume you managed to see the video we sent back? And I presume you're a beer drinker too!

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

@@richardburridge2798 just found it again now! They did great at the IDs!!

@NickVenture1 Жыл бұрын

Still a question: Can an affordable scanner or radar produce images of the fossiles inside the stone before the extraction work even begins?

@MamlamboFossils Жыл бұрын

Not an affordable one! But you can with a nuclear reactor like I did with this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNKchad6rtm0kqs.html

@NickVenture1 Жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils I watched. Anyhow I'll watch all your videos over the coming days. To learn and have fun. And with the eyes wide opened I'll have a smarter look at rocks, boulders and sediments here in Asia.

@paulettejabbar2690 2 жыл бұрын

Super

@ashleyjones7375 2 жыл бұрын

I got super excited the other day. I was walking the dog down Lyme Regis. UK. and I saw a skull shape on quite a large rock as I ran my hand over and started to roll the rock to see the other side and realized it was dryed bird crap. Went from excited to disgusted in 2 seconds.

@margiebrown7436 2 жыл бұрын

Here in the US we call those water line agates. You can see the different layers where the water left sediment. 😊

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've heard people at our mineral club also call them waterline agates!

@margiebrown7436 2 жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils it’s beautiful. Nice finds. 😊

@oneshotme 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how that clump of seashells would look cut?? You said winter is coming. Winter is coming here to Florida USA Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@valiantwarrior4517 2 жыл бұрын

That agate is spectacular. Chalcedony fluoresces under UV light, doesn’t it?

@thegreatchickenoverlord5976 2 жыл бұрын

Have you considered air abrasion with a softer media? Something like walnut shell?

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Its on my list of things to try! Its difficult getting access to the right size media in New Zealand so I have to make my own

@butter7734 2 жыл бұрын

How did these form? I've never seen fossils like this.

@alexcuthbertson4946 2 жыл бұрын

Were is the beach because I can’t find anything around Timaru or is it a secret?

@Lilith-Rose 2 жыл бұрын

My immediate thought was fish bone, either a fin spine or a vertebral process, very difficult to distinguish between the two

@victoriabryer4710 Жыл бұрын

I hope to find a rock with a crab inside on my beach one day, I just don't know if I'm allowed to keep it or if it belongs to the Queen aka the Crown. I need to do some research. I went rockhounding for the first time after watching dozens of these type of videos. Found lots of pretty stones I don't know the name of yet quartz and granite, a peice of petrified wood ( which at first I didn't think I found a peice till I went through my finds again ) tons of limestone with crinoids, brachiopods fossils. Some unakite. I went a little crazy and might have broke the rule of over hounding but I never go maybe once a year and looked through my haul several times picked out my faves and I will bring the rest back

@RRanks Жыл бұрын

What part of Nz you in? Awesome job!

@MamlamboFossils Жыл бұрын

Christchurch, thanks!!!

@rmg03c 2 жыл бұрын

It’s just frustrating to watch and wonder, with extreme neediness, to know what’s inside say, that ‘flat crab’ looking thing, and having to know that I’ll likely not get to find out. It’s torture!!! 😫😫😫 😖 Anyway, love the journey of your vids. I live in Florida where there are fossils Everywhere! Only, they are ‘all’ composed of different morphs of calcium. 😕 The sharks teeth and other good stuff aren’t as easy to find as it appears on some of the Florida fossil hunters’ channels. Therefore, I explore NZ vicariously through your work here. For that, I say thank you. ☮️

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

I will be prepping some of the ones I find in the videos, that one is especially weird so might do it. I need access to a Xray machine :)

@rmg03c 2 жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils That would be fantastic! 🤨🧐 The inquiring minds of fossil geeks EVERYWHERE, want to know!! 🤣 But seriously folks… I understand how much work it is to prep such a specimen. You can’t just throw together a vid on all the curious finds by making a quick production video. It’s true research. I’m a bit jealous.

@whitworthone 2 жыл бұрын

Nice speed through Oamaru at the end, did you stay to see the real penguins?

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Not this time but I have a couple of times

@TheTablet314 2 жыл бұрын

I think it could be interesting to make a thin slice out of the unshaped piece of bone - paleohistology is a thing and seeing the remnants of some million year old bone cells may be cool. The procedure goes like this: Encase the chunk or part of it in resin, get a thin slice, bond it to a piece glass and then polish it down to ~100 um or so.

@wordreet 2 жыл бұрын

OMG! That thumbnail could it be the origin of the victory V sign!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉 There are clay cliffs on the Isle of Sheppy in the south east of the UK, our dad took us there, feels like a century ago. How heavy is your back pack by the end of the day?

@zatoth13 2 жыл бұрын

What do fossil catfish spines look like (fossil fossil not h. Fossilis)?

@christianj8614 2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@dustinrenter5092 2 жыл бұрын

@ 2:10 is that rock next to the bone a shiny ✨ one what was that how did you not pick it up and inspected that… so many questions was it a huge gold nugget, an alien egg, what was it ?

@rebeccalucysmith9689 2 жыл бұрын

You must get in a sweat wondering whether you’re cutting the rock in the right place!

@patrickforget5088 Жыл бұрын

Well that's your next fossil

@justagirlsd3000 2 жыл бұрын

You mentioned penguins. Do you have a video with a penguin?

@barkingmouse8152 2 жыл бұрын

dropstone?

@peterclegg2609 2 жыл бұрын

I can just pick up on your accent some NZ just peaking through 🙂

@omegasalmonfish 2 жыл бұрын

Poor seal rip :(

@b9brutality 2 жыл бұрын

2:13 the fossil bone is ok, but I was transfixed by the rock to the right of it, made up of some kind of matrix and layers of shells. Beautiful!!!

@samwaine897 2 жыл бұрын

Can you find crab fossils in the UK?

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure there will be, maybe in the London clay?

@samwaine897 2 жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils do you think they would be in concretions as in your videos?

@markokostelac7282 2 жыл бұрын

Mollusk fossils at my beach in 🇭🇷

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work!! There might be shark teeth too then!

@markokostelac7282 2 жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils seems like squid teeth or shells if only I could send a pic

@ayesjunandy5435 2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever seen the movie The Fog?

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think I have actually, I think i read the book though! It was pretty creepy

@davidnelsen5922 Жыл бұрын

Have you ever found early human bones or teeth?

@MamlamboFossils Жыл бұрын

No I haven't. I would just report those, I wouldn't touch or collect them

@ccccarriemchardy9216 2 жыл бұрын

2.14 was that a part skull or vertebrae in the concretion in the back round, next to where that bone was?

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Oooh I'll go back and check!

@mikes5637 2 жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils it looked like jointed limb bones or digits to me.

@busch6538 2 жыл бұрын

I found the Rock and split it open there was a seashell in it I didn't look at it for a a sometime. Then I went to open it up and the shell was disintegrated

@MamlamboFossils 2 жыл бұрын

Ah yeah, that does happen. Especially if there is some type of iron in the mix, it oxidizes and crumbles away.

@busch6538 2 жыл бұрын

@@MamlamboFossils thank you very much for your input